Salt The Podcast

Paola Salwan Daher is the Senior Global Advocacy Adviser at the Center for Reproductive Rights and a Marxist feminist from the Lebanese diaspora. She is interested in feminist movement building, embodying transnational solidarity, rethinking love and relationships, poetry, writing, tattoos, books, watching her children grow and the general witchery of life.  This is part two of our conversati...

Paola Salwan Daher is the Senior Global Advocacy Adviser at the Center for Reproductive Rights and a Marxist feminist from the Lebanese diaspora. She is interested in feminist movement building, embodying transnational solidarity, rethinking love and relationships, poetry, writing, tattoos, books, watching her children grow and the general witchery of life.  This episode consists of two parts...

Miriam Timas is both an HR professional and Walking Coach at Meerjezelfzijn , a true people’s person, who values honesty and bringing healing to others. She is comforting and warm, genuine, connected to nature and keen on learning and evolving. Miriam had learnt from a very young age that love was conditioned, and that you either live your life as expected or you are no longer accepted. Being rais...

Eva Kotta is based in Athens, Greece and during the first lockdown she created The Abstract Girl , a blog and Instagram account to share her thoughts and all the things that inspire her daily. Her favorite topics revolve around gender equality, feminism and women empowerment and through her blog she raises awareness regarding gender inequality and strives towards creating social change in Greek so...

Merette Khalil is a multilingual health systems researcher, gender and sexual reproductive health and rights advocate, feminist, doula, and birth educator, who is passionate about ensuring the right to health for all. She is based in Cairo, Egypt and the founder and CEO of YourEgyptianDoula , the first doula organization of its kind in the country and the region working to educate, advocate, and e...

Red, Ayelle and Margot are three members of the feminist collective “ Feminist Collages Amsterdam ” an intersectional feminist movement fighting systemic domination by reclaiming the streets through pasted slogans. They practice horizontal and decentralized civil disobedience to denounce oppressions such as femicides (the killing of women for being women), domestic violence, sexism, racism, queerp...

Esther Molenaar is a haptotherapist in Amsterdam where she lives with her partner and her 7-year-old daughter Charlie. Her favorite pastime is dancing on roller-skates and she even runs a small roller-skate business next to her haptotherapy practice. Her star sign is Aries and her Chinese zodiac dragon. She describes herself as an ambitious, slightly restless women interested in everything that in...

Nicole Newman , is the creator of Pėcora Craft , a brand that makes Afro-Latina women visible through embroidered illustrations, highlighting expressions, textures and empowerment of black women. Nicole is the daughter of an Afro-Chilean mother and an American father, who grew up in Concepción, a city in the South of Chile, always surrounded by nature, the sea and adventures.  She comes from a fam...

Maya Angelou says: "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” Salt is my untold story and with everyone I am inviting to speak on Salt I am showing you my own trauma and healing path, creating a space that is for ALL of us because we are love, community and struggle.  Enjoy the first anniversary episode wonderful people. Host: Stella Saliari   At Salt The Podcast my...

Kaelin Vu is a life coach, podcaster, and life enthusiast. Her journey to helping others began with her own challenges. She experienced a lot of pain and challenges, overcame abandonment, sexual abuse, substance abuse, anxiety, and depression. Her turning point was when she decided to look forward to the future and let go of the past. Now she shares the wisdom she learned along the way of healing...

Zina Malas is a third culture kid, who was born in the UK and raised in the UAE. She further lived in Beirut, London, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Zina has a degree in political science and a Masters in anthropology of media. She worked in government, research and radio and helped to set up numerous radio stations in the Middle East.  Zina is also a single mom to 2 beautiful daughters while her divorc...

Judith Holzmann is the co-founder of Cat Calls of Nimma an Instagram account against gender-based street harassment, where Judith and her friend and co-founder Roos write stories of harassment word-for-word in the spots where they happened alongside the hashtag #stopstreetharassment using sidewalk chalk and then post on social media to spur dialogue and story sharing.   Nimma stands for Nijmegen,...

Jessica Baladad is the founder and chief advocate of Feel For Your Life , an online resource for breast health advocacy. When Jessica was 33 years old, she was diagnosed with stage 2B invasive ductal carcinoma after discovering a lump while doing a self breast exam in the shower. She underwent 16 rounds of chemotherapy, a double mastectomy, 24 rounds of radiation, a hysterectomy and a 10-hour flap...

Lieke Koningen is a mother, a moderator, a lifecoach, community builder and event producer. She is further an award winning teacher, a dancer and workshop developer who lives with her family in Amsterdam.  From a very young age she felt the need to stand up against injustice and her passion for social justice has been part of her life forever. She believes that it is important to speak with people...

Pamela Huk is from Cochabamba, Bolivia where she studied industrial engineering. 10 years ago, she came to the Netherlands as the recipient of a scholarship and obtained a Masters in management, economics and consumer behavior at Wageningen University. After her studies she moved to Amsterdam where she works now in Marketing in the educational sector.  The last 7 years she has been involved in var...

Rula Asad is from Damascus and holds a degree in journalism from the University of Damascus. She also holds a Masters in Gender Studies from Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Rula is a feminist journalist, researcher and the co-founder and Executive Director of the Syrian Female Journalists Network (SFJN) . Further, she is a freelance journalist and reporter on women and human rights, as well...

Nicole Römer is a coordinator at Neighborhood Feminists . As coordinator, she is in charge of the Dignity Kits project, volunteer coordination and logistics. Nicole is also a public speaker and writer.   In this episode we talk first and foremost about period poverty, the amazing neighbourhood feminists and their work on the topic. We are further talking about intersectional feminism, the white sa...

Hayma Alyousfi is a Syrian feminist, human rights defender and political activist. She is part of the Syrian revolution but had to leave the country in 2014. However, she continues to fight for radical justice in Syria from abroad and is an active member of the civil society since 2012.  In this episode we talk about feminism, activism, books and the feminist killjoy, but above all about the Syria...

Katerina Michaloutsou was born and raised in Greece. She has two beautiful daughters, loves spending time in thrift stores and flea markets, enjoys biking and nature. She is also a vintage enthusiast and plant collector.  After working for several years as a business analytics consultant she moved to the Netherlands in 2018 and two years later she founded Fitolojio Workshop , a slow fashion, ethic...

Kristel Letschert was born and raised in the Netherlands where she studied tour guiding. Then she fell in love with a Palestinian and moved to Palestine. She lives in Beit Safafa, a town between Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Her home is between the green line, the demarcation line between Israel and the Westbank and the Wall that Israel built.  She is the mother of Louisa and Hardi and is studying the...

Ninna Gutierrez is a young adult full of empathy, who loves spending time with friends, working out, writing, journaling and traveling. In this episode Ninna tells us her story about her 'invisible illness'. She is speaking her truth, which was not always easy for her, but now it has become simple and in its simplicity lies a power, the power of transformation, setting her free form the pain she e...

Sofi Antonellini is a passionate feminist activist from Argentina currently living in Amsterdam. She works as a program manager for a Syrian feminist organization and is part of different feminist collectives involved in decolonial practice and intersectional feminism.  Sofi says: “As a Latina migrant living in Western Europe, I am interested in the connections between the Western and non-Western...

Cordelia Gaffar is an emotions transformation coach, an award winning podcast host, an author of several books such as detached love , part of the unlearning labels project, a mother of 6, and above all a wonderful soul. In this episode we talk about replenish me: Cordelia's coaching program; unlearning labels: her newest project; spirituality, our soulself and about sexuality.  Host: Stella Salia...

Yuli Kim is from Tokyo and has been living in the Netherlands since 2010. Her wife is American and they have two little children and a third one on the way. Yuli started Inclusion Sensei in 2020, promoting workplace inclusion. She is also a Learning and Development Program Manager at Workplace Pride Amsterdam. She believes that a sense of belonging is a pre-requisite for anyone to perform their be...

Olga Ditibane is a former professional dancer and dance teacher from South Africa. She was born and raised in Pretoria and moved to Germany as an au-pair to work and learn the language. She likes the country so much that she has decided to stay in Germany to pursue her studies in Education. In this episode we talk about Olga's journey, racism, her faith, self care, her Salt and much more. Olga is...